BUG 32 & BUG 32-The Director's Cut

Dubstep Dispute

This brilliant visualisation of the music – it’s a section of a remix (of Muse’s Knights of Cydonia) by Nostalgia – demonstrates that dubstep is essentially the sound of robots getting angry. It was created in 3D animation by Jason Giles, a full-time 3D artist from Colorado who goes by the name of Fluxel. Media for his personal projects.

Eytan and the Embassy – Everything Changes

Eytan and the Embassy’s Everything Changes is a conventional music video directed by Joseph Pickard with some familiar characteristics – it’s a oneshot video, filmed in one locked-off shot. But director Joe Pickard and the band make it original, fun to watch – and a record breaker. Lead singer Eytan Oren takes the viewer on a journey through rock music via numerous costume changes, becoming Dylan, Morisson, Elvis, early Elton, Bowie, and many more.

Justice – New Lands

One of the most ambitious and visually stunning music video productions this year, by brilliant Barcelona based directing outfit Canada. It’s also a marked change from their usual
style of prodigious amounts of random imagery. Instead this is blockbuster movie style narrative – essentially their version of a cult Seventies movie Rollerball – with appropriately impressive production values, made possible by the sponsorship of the video by Red Bull.

Silent Devices – Una

Very affecting video for Leicester band Silent Devices’ track Una, directed by Miles Bingham – an ad creative making his directing debut. It begins in gritty Britfilm territory, with a homeless old man (played by Chris Green).

Om Unit – Ulysses

The video for Om Unit’s Ulysses is directed by Bison – that’s Dave Bullivant and Owen Silverwood, whose collaborations with artist/producer Jon Hopkins (called Swarm and Vessel) have been featured previously at BUG. The pair has been experimenting with CGI for the past few months, and what appears to be a routine exercise in motion graphics, with the visual aesthetic of primitive CGI, then develops into an involving narrative.

No Monster Club – La La Land

It's hard not to warm to Chance the dog, in Ged Murray’s video for Irish band No Monster Club’s La La Land. As a battered old blue Ford Fiesta drives around Dublin, Chance pops his head out of the passenger window, and then… well, part of the fun is to see what happens next.

James Brown – It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World

We collaborated with Saatchi & Saatchi (one of the sponsors of our shows at the BFI) together with website Genero.tv and Universal Music to create the James Brown Music Video Challenge The winner of the grand prize (the chance to work with Saatchi & Saatchi on one of their campaigns, official video status and a cash prize) was Xavier Fauthoux’s video for It’s a Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World.

Alt-J – Tesselate

Alex Southam’s video for Alt-J’s Tesselate combines a cracking song by one of the UK’s most promising new bands with a more contemporary urban feel. In fact the idea behind the video is to present aspects of hiphop culture in a classical setting. It’s an updating of Raphael’s painting School of Athens – and also employs a zooming-and-panning technique that recalls Hammer & Tong’s great promo for REM’s Imitation of Life.

Yu Miyashita – Mimic

A short, sharp, head-banging VFX treat courtesy of Italian
computer animator Lucio Arese, who creates mad metal-punk CGI to accompany a highly experimental composition by Japanese ‘Glitch’ musician Yu Miyashita, who makes music from digital debris: bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, skipping and audio computer distortion. After this, a couple of
Anadin might be in order.

The Fall – Bury Pts 2 & 4

The first video from our special guests Will and Dylan – aka thirtytwo.. They had the chance to work with their hero Mark E Smith on this one.